[PATCH v2 3/4] mac80211: initialize rate control earlier for tdls station

[Arik Nemtsov]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-03-01 at 10:21 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
>
>> > Arik, you have a similar patch handling only NSS. Does this one look
>> > fine to you, and would it solve the problem your other patch solved?
>>
>> Well currently iwlmvm requires the NSS to be set before
>> IEEE80211_STA_ASSOC (earlier), so this doesn't help directly.
>> I could change mvm a bit to make it work, but I don't really see a
>> good reason for it :)
>>
>> The patch looks good. Shouldn't introduce new issues (at least for iwlwifi).
>
> Ok, thanks. Do you think it would be possible to move all of this before
> ASSOC?

We can probably move his rate_control_rate_init() to assoc, since we have this:

/*
* TDLS -- everything follows authorized, but
* only becoming authorized is possible, not
* going back
*/
if (set & BIT(NL80211_STA_FLAG_AUTHORIZED)) {
set |= BIT(NL80211_STA_FLAG_AUTHENTICATED) |
      BIT(NL80211_STA_FLAG_ASSOCIATED);
mask |= BIT(NL80211_STA_FLAG_AUTHENTICATED) |
BIT(NL80211_STA_FLAG_ASSOCIATED);
}